You Cannot Change the World

Daily Meditation — 5/14/2022

“The world needs to have more body positivity.”
“Society needs to be more accepting of differences.”
“We as a collective need to promote sustainable practices.”

No one opinion is purely right or purely wrong.

All views exist on a spherical spectrum of good, bad, right, and wrong — at all points simultaneously…

…because of individual perception.

The world doesn’t need to change because you believe it does.

And, you cannot change it — not through coercion, not through force (unless you take a Stalinist approach).

Stop foisting what you perceive as the correct manner of living onto the world and instead turn inwards:

“Am I, myself, living in a manner consistent with what I believe is correct?”

That is all you can do in the world.

Anything else is projecting yourself narcissistically onto everyone else.

Teach others.
Help them improve themselves.

Anything beyond it is manipulation to an end.

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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”